1. How do you get to school?

2. Which is the safest way to go to school?

the most comfortable

……

 

Read and choose:

1. What happened on the afternoon of December 12?

A. Some students lost their lives on the way to school.

B. An accident happened to a group of students on a school bus.

C. A school bus fell into a river and some students lost their lives

D. Some students were excited to take their new school bus home.

 

2. How many school buses meet a set of technical standards in China ?

A. 18,500  B.10  C.285,000  D. 28,500

 

3. The Ministry of Public Security will do the following to make school buses safer EXCEPT _____.

A. allow school buses to use the bus lanes

B. punish school bus drivers without licenses

C. ask schools to put a monitoring system on the buses

D. punish drivers who carry more students than the bus can hold

 

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A. It isn’t good for students to take school buses.

B. School buses help students get to school easily.

C. Governments have already improved the school buses.

D. School bus safety has gotten people’s attention.

Key: BDCD

Check the true sentences:

1. Lulu’s parents can’t believe that they have lost their daughter forever.

2. Traffic accidents are the No 1 killer of middle school and primary school students.

3. Chinese government doesn’t pay any attention to the safety of school buses.

4. All the school buses in China will soon be the same as the buses in Taizhou, Jiangsu.

Key: TTFF

What should a school driver be like, in your opinion?

Design a school bus which you think is the most safe for students to take!

 

1. What do bloggers usually write on their blogs?

2. What do bloggers usually write on their blogs?

3. What do you think this Pakistani girl writes on her blog?

 

Read and answer:

What unusual thing has Yusafzai done? Why?

2. What does Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti think of Yusafzai?

3.What prize did she get on November 24?

4. What does she plan to do after she finishes her higher education?

5. Why does she want to become an honest and hard-working politician?

Key: 1. She has started blogging against the Taliban under the pen name Gul Makai because the Taliban stopped girls’ schooling in Swat in February, 2009. 2. He thinks she is very brave. 3. She got the Pakistani National Peace Prize. 4. She plans to play an active role in Pakistani politics. 5. Because her country badly needs this kind of person.

 

Discussion

Do you think it is important for girls to get an education? Why?

What do you think of Yusafzai?

If you were Yusafzai, would you fight for the rights for girls?

 

 

1. What’s the most important festival in Western countries?

2. How do Westerners celebrate it?

3. Have you ever celebrated it in China?

 

Read fast and answer:

1. Where did the writer spend Christmas this year?

2. What did the writer prepare for Christmas?

Key: 1. In China. 2. Christmas food, cards, a party and songs.

 

Read and choose:

1. How many days did the writer get off in December?

A week.                      B. Ten days.  

C. None.                            D. Three days.

2. In the UK, what’s the traditional food on the December days before Christmas?

A. Mince pies.           B. Apple pies.

C. Spice.                         D. Brandy.

 

3. What did the writer do when she didn’t find key mince pie ingredients in China?

A. She gave up making mince pies, and made some baozi and jiaozi.

B. She used Chinese spices and made little pies in the shape of baozi and jiaozi.

C. She gave up on making any Christmas food and bought some delicious Chinese food.

D. She bought some traditional Christmas food from the supermarket.

 

4. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. How to celebrate Christmas in Western countries

B. How the writer celebrated Christmas in China

C. Christmas is very important for Westerners

D. The traditions of Christmas in Western countries

Key: CABB

 

What are the Christmas traditions?

How are the Spring Festival traditions?

 

It is in nature, especially in mountains

When you shout, it will shout to you, too.

It will return what you give it.

What is it?

 

Check the true sentences:

1. The story is about a young boy and his father.

2. There are two boys in the story.

3. At last, the boy learned a lesson from his father.

Key: TFT

 

Read and choose:

1. When did the story take place?

A. In spring         B. In summer  

C. In autumn        D. In winter

 

2. What happened to the boy when he was walking through the mountains?

A. He fell down from the top of the mountain.

B. He slipped down the side of the mountain.

C. He heard someone asking for help loudly.

D. He got lost and didn’t know what to do.

 

3. Why did the father yell “You are a winner” to the mountain?

A. Because he thought it was very interesting to do that.

B. Because he wanted to tell his son that it was an echo.

C. Because he wanted to tell his son that life would return what you give.

D. Because he wanted to tell his son that one should be polite to others.

 

4. What did we learn from the story?

A. Echoes are natural but very interesting things.

B. We should always be polite and friendly to others at all times.

C. We should first send out something to the world, and it will return the same thing back to us.

D. Life is just like a mirror, it always comes back to you whatever you do.

Key: BBCD

 

Discussion

Life is just like a mirror. You smile, it will smile to you; you cry, it will cry to you too.

Can you explain the meaning of the saying with examples?